[ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

[Daniel Case]

Ohhh, and do not forget sudo!!

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Case
<danielcase10 at googlemail.com>wrote:

> You got it right, there just doesnt want to be a 1 there, and it does not
> want to be mounted:
>
> /dev/sdb :)
>
> #Warning: IT WILL WIPE THE WHOLE DRIVE!!#
>
>
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 23 May 2010 21:27, Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 23 May 2010 21:22, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim at southfarm.plus.com> wrote:
>> >>...
>> >> Problem 1: the USB sticks:
>> >> -------------------------
>> >> The 8 GB stick has no apparent fault as all the files on it can be seen
>> >> OK.
>> >> The 4 GB stick starts off as 4GB but formatting brings this down to 3.4
>> >> GB and this will not hold all of Stephen Ford's image.
>> >>
>> >> Problem 2: Loading Ubuntu to the stick:
>> >> --------------------------------------
>> >> I had originally done this on the 8 GB stick via the Windows program
>> >> Disk Imager which made two partitions.
>> >>
>> >> As this had not worked on the Joggler, I then tried following Stephen
>> >> Ford's simple instructions from his site.  I unzipped (un-tar, etc) his
>> >> file until I was left with this: joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin
>> >>
>> >> I then wiped the stick and reformatted it.
>> >>
>> >> The problem then came with his command of:
>> >>  dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin of=<your_own_device> bs=10M count=365
>> >> I did not know what <your_own_device>should be translated to.  So I
>> >> tried:
>> >>  dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M count=365
>> >> and got the response:
>> >>  dd: opening `/dev/sdb1': Permission denied
>> >>
>> >> My second attempt was with this command:
>> >>  dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin
>> >>  of=/media/C/joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin bs=10M count=365
>> >> and this got the response of:
>> >>  365+0 records in
>> >>  365+0 records out
>> >>  3827302400 bytes (3.8 GB) copied, 707.077 s, 5.4 MB/s
>> >>
>> >> As above, I put the stick in the Joggler and nothing useful resulted on
>> >> a reboot.
>> >
>> > Hello, the initial command looked correct, the location of the device
>> > is the name of where the usb stick is in the file system table, open
>> > Gparted/partition editor, you should see the usb device and it will be
>> > something like /dev/sdb
>> >
>> > then remember to type sudo before the command, just to see if you need
>> > root privilege to access the device. HTH
>>
>> Just as a corollary to this, it is not necessary to format the stick
>> before writing it with dd.  The formatting info is included in the
>> image.  So the output file is something like sdb which is the complete
>> stick rather than a partition.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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> --
> ~Daniel
>



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~Daniel
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